In the Open Graves, Open Minds Project, we unearthed depictions of the vampire and the undead in literature, art, and other media, before embracing shapeshifters and other supernatural beings and their worlds. OGOM opens up questions concerning genre, gender, hybridity, cultural change, and other realms. The Project extends to all narratives of the fantastic, the folkloric, the fabulous, and the magical.

The modes of the Gothic and the dystopian often interact, especially in recent YA fiction, where, post-Twilight, vampire fiction, for example, has performed another generic shift and mated with dystopian SF (stirred by the success of Hunger Games) and created hybrids such as Holly Black’s The Coldest Girl in Coldtown.